Thandie Newton

Despite having grown up without the ambition to perform in front of the camera, Thandie Newton nonetheless grew into an accomplished, but often overlooked actress. Almost on a whim, she landed a starr...
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Thandie Newton campaigns against dairy industry

By:
WENN.com
Mar 13, 2015

Actress Thandie Newton is urging animal-lovers to switch to milk alternatives to save dairy cows from cruelty. The vegan Crash star is the face of a new People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) U.K. campaign aimed at turning folk onto dairy substitutes, and she features in a hard-hitting video showing milking cows being separated from their young.
Newton says, "As a mother, I can't imagine what it would be like to have my children taken away from me. But this is what happens to cows on dairy farms every single day.
"Like all mothers, cows produce milk for their young, but... cows in the dairy industry have their newborn calves stolen from them after only one or two days...
"I hope you'll agree that no mother or baby deserves that suffering and you can help them simply by choosing plant-based alternatives... Please, join me in standing up for all mothers by refusing to support the cruel dairy industry".
The video was released on Friday (13Mar15) to mark Britain's Mother's Day on Sunday (15Mar15).

Gugu Mbatha-Raw's period drama Belle looks set to lead Britain's National Film Awards (NFAs) after landing six nominations. The film, about the illegitimate daughter of a Royal Navy Captain, has won nods in the Best Drama and Best Screenplay categories while Mbatha-Raw is up for Best Newcomer and Best Breakthrough Performance, her co-star Tom Felton for Best Actor and Amma Asante for Best Director.
Mbatha-Raw is also in the running for the Best Actress prize her drama Beyond the Lights.
Belle will compete against movies including The Fault in Our Stars, Pride and Mr. Turner in the Best Drama category, while Mbatha-Raw will battle it out with Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our Stars), Jamie Foxx (Annie), Michael Fassbender (Frank) and Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), among others, for the Best Breakthrough Performance prize.
Nominees for Best International Film include Boyhood, Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy, Selma, Wild, The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything.
Ben Affleck has landed a Best Actor nod for his role in Gone Girl, while other nominees include David Oyelowo (Selma), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game), Jack O'Connell ('71) and Outkast's Andre Benjamin for Jimi: All Is By My Side.
Shailene Woodley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw will go head-to-head once more for the Best Actress prize, alongside Quvenzhane Wallis (Annie), Imelda Stauton (Pride), Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game) and Thandie Newton (Half a Yellow Sun), among others.
Dame Judi Dench will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in honour of her 50-year career on stage and screen.
The winners, as voted by the public, will be announced in London on 31 March (15).

Hollywood actress Thandie Newton has been crowned the Sexiest Vegan of 2014 by bosses at the U.K. branch of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The Crash star was awarded the prize in recognition of her efforts in promoting plant-based eating and compassion for animals.
She says of the honour, "I don't want any kind of suffering of any living form... Animals are being pumped full of growth hormones which are then getting fed to our kids. And it's affecting the water, environment."
British boxer David Haye, who went vegan at the start of 2014 after watching a farming documentary, was also honoured.
They will each receive a box of vegan chocolates and a framed certificate.

A star-studded TV series adaptation of cult 1973 film Westworld has been given the greenlight by bosses at U.S. cable network HBO. Sir Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood and James Marsden will head up the cast of the latest version of Michael Crichton's film about robots who take over an amusement park.
Hopkins will make his debut as a TV series regular when he takes on the part of the inventor who runs the attraction. Marsden, Wood and Thandie Newton will play androids in the project.
The series will debut next year (15).

Actress Uma Thurman has stepped in to replace a sick Mary-Louise Parker in an upcoming TV miniseries based on Christos Tsiolka's bestselling novel The Slap. The Weeds star had originally been due to portray Anouk, a TV writer who is dating her show's leading man, played by Penn Badgley, but Parker has since had to withdraw from the project as she recovers from a bout of pneumonia.
Thurman has signed on to take over the role as producers prepare to begin shooting, reports TVLine.com.
The Slap, a family drama about a man who lashes out at another couple's child, will be the second TV adaptation of Tsiolka's 2008 book - British actress Sophia Okonedo and former Australian soap star Melissa George previously appeared in a 2011 version Down Under.
George will reprise her character of overprotective mother Rosie in the U.S. version, which also includes Peter Sarsgaard, Zachary Quinto and Thandie Newton among its castmembers.
The Kids Are All Right filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko will direct.
Thurman previously appeared on the small screen in 2012, in a guest role on musical drama Smash, while she also featured in TV movies Hysterical Blindness, My Zinc Bed and A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa.

Actress Katie Holmes has been unveiled as the new face of beauty firm Olay. The Batman Begins star reveals she jumped at the chance to front a new advertising campaign for the brand's skincare line because she has been using Olay products since she was a teen living in the company's home base of Ohio.
She tells People.com, "It's an Ohio company, so it feels like home to be working with them. They really mean something to women. I remember buying Olay in high school because I wanted to look pretty."
Holmes joins the likes of singer Carrie Underwood and actress Thandie Newton, who have both served as Olay brand ambassadors.

Actress Thandie Newton is relocating her family from her native U.K. to Los Angeles. The star has resisted moving across the Atlantic since landing her big break in Mission Impossible II in 2000, but her living arrangements have changed following the birth of her son Booker in March (14), and now she needs to have her entire family, including husband Ol Parker and daughters Ripley and Nico, with her in Los Angeles as she films U.S. TV series Rogue.
However, Newton insists the move is not permanent.
She tells Britain's Mail on Sunday, "We're packed and ready to leave - the whole family... my son Booker is only four months old. I'm still breastfeeding so can't be away from him... We won't stay in L.A. for ever. I'll be back in time so that Booker doesn't grow up with an American accent."

Producers behind Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton's new film Half Of A Yellow Sun have been granted an August (14) release date in Nigeria following a dispute with the nation's censorship officials. The movie, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, tells the story of the nation's brutal Biafran War in the late 1960s through the eyes of its lead characters.
The big screen adaptation of the civil war story was originally due to hit cinemas in April (14), but the plans were scuppered after local authorities at the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) halted the release for "regulatory issues", amid concerns the sensitive topic could stir ethnic tensions.
Bosses at Shareman Media and FilmOne Distribution met with censorship officials in June (14) to discuss the situation and it appears a re-edited version of Half of a Yellow Sun has won them approval for release.
The movie was awarded an 18 certificate, meaning only those over the age of 18 will be able to view the film in theatres.

Splash News
Angelina Jolie's London summit to end rape in war zones has won the support of stars including Thandie Newton, Kathleen Turner, model Cara Delevingne, and even Catholic leader Pope Francis.
The Hollywood actress launched the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in the British capital on Tuesday (10Jun14) and the event's slogan #timetoact has sparked a social networking frenzy. The phrase has become a trending topic on Twitter.com as more and more stars post pictures of themselves holding a sign bearing the words.
Newton, Turner and Delevingne have all joined in, with the model backing Jolie in a tweet, writing, "Yes Angie! #timetoact #stoptorture". Others who have backed the drive include Harry Potter actress Bonnie Wright, fashion designers Stella McCartney and Vivienne Westwood, singers Paloma Faith, Mollie King and Eliza Doolittle, and Pope Francis.
The head of the Catholic Church writes on Twitter, "Let us pray for all victims of sexual violence in conflict, and those working to end this crime. #TimeToAct."

Summary

Despite having grown up without the ambition to perform in front of the camera, Thandie Newton nonetheless grew into an accomplished, but often overlooked actress. Almost on a whim, she landed a starring role in the low-budget Australian feature, "Flirting" (1992), which immediately established Newton's potential. Though she put acting on the backburner to finish her studies at Cambridge University, Newton made several small, but memorable appearances in "Interview With the Vampire" (1994) and "GRIDLOCK'd" (1997). But it was her supporting role in "Mission: Impossible 2" (2000) that introduced her to a mass audience, which opened the doors to more prominent features like "The Truth About Charlie" (2002) and "The Chronicles of Riddick" (2004). Not one to be relegated to playing the heroine in action fare, Newton expanded her horizons with a gripping and complicated performance in the racism-themed "Crash" (2005), which finally earned the actress the respect and award recognition she so richly deserved.

Education

Name

University of Cambridge

Arts Educational School

Notes

Newton's birth name Thandiwe was a Bantu term for "loved one" or "beloved."

"When we moved to England, there were very few black people in the town. We were almost a novelty. It was an opportunity for the neighbors to tell others, I met an African girl, how exotic! I always saw being black as something very useful, a mysterious element I could use to enrich my personality. Then I went into the arts, where difference is celebrated. So I've never really experienced racial hassle." – Newton quoted in The New York Times Nov. 19, 1995

"She has this fusion of brains, charm, decency and of course, she's beautiful to look at. But she's also a very contemporary woman, and no director has really made use of that yet. I wanted to be the first." – Jonathan Demme to Entertainment Weekly, August 2002